Can I have an answer on disability services please?

Is the Taoiseach committing to ring-fencing the funding? The providers have sent him a figure.

They are in correspondence with the Taoiseach.

I take this opportunity to offer my sincere condolences to the family and friends of the jockey Pat Smullen. His death has brought deep sadness to the horse-racing community and, indeed, far beyond that. As we all know, Pat fought his own battle with pancreatic cancer but he also raised more than €2.5 million for treatment and research into that disease. It is fair to say that Ireland has lost a champion both on and off the racecourse. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. Yesterday was billed as the day to bring clarity an…

The Taoiseach may have heard Dublin-based GPs this morning on the media setting out their concerns around the delays in accessing tests and the further delays in results being returned. He may choose to adopt a defensive posture and to attack me but I am working on the supposition that he will take the word of medical professionals who are not inventing these scenarios. These are doctors who deal with patients who present when they are sick, as I did. I had this experience. They are not in the habit of making up th…

There is also the matter of the 24-hour turnaround in testing. As for Dublin, the Taoiseach's words today add to the confusion and anxiety across the county.

NPHET gave information and advice to the Government and it was put into the public domain. All the Taoiseach has achieved is confusion and he has not been on his own, as other Ministers have also caused confusion. The Taoiseach should clarify matters now by precisely and succinctly setting out the travel advice for people in Dublin.

Deputy Martin is the Taoiseach and should set it out. His Ministers do not know it.

The community does not know it. The Taoiseach is the head of the Government so instead of snapping at me he should do his job and set out the information.

It is also not 100,000.

Will he state it again?

I did not have to. The Government has done it by itself.

I am not.

No. Testing and tracing is the core of this.

Two weeks ago, I raised the issue of proposed increases in utility prices and I set out for the Taoiseach the considerable pressure that workers and their families are under. I asked the Taoiseach at that time to intervene with Electric Ireland regarding its forthcoming price hike and he stated that he would do so. I also asked the Taoiseach to put a stop to the 100% hike in the public service obligation, PSO, levy levied by the Government because this will also have the effect of increasing prices. I wrote to the …

Did Electric Ireland tell the Taoiseach that?

I thank the Taoiseach for that response. When the Taoiseach gets to his feet to respond to me, will he clarify what Electric Ireland said to him when he contacted it? He confirmed that he had been in contact with the company and I ask him to set out its response in respect of energy costs. I asked the Taoiseach in advance of the summer recess about the north inner city initiative, which had been sponsored by a predecessor of his as Taoiseach. I also asked him about community participation in the national drug and a…

For the third time, I am asking the Taoiseach to set out what Electric Ireland told him when he contacted them. I raised this issue around energy bills, which is of massive concern.

The Taoiseach told me earlier that he had been in touch with Electric Ireland. This is the third occasion I am asking him to clarify what it said to him, what commitments it made and so on. I also note that the Ombudsman for Children has published its annual report today. It is raising specific concerns about mental health policy and provision for children and young people. I want to reflect that concern to the Taoiseach. It is the issue of remote education for children who live with a medically vulnerable person t…

They do not want it though.